AMD Launches Ryzen PRO 8000 Desktop APUs, Bringing Graphics & AI Leadership To Businesses

16.04.2024 - 15:27 / wccftech.com / Hassan Mujtaba

AMD today announces the launch of its Ryzen PRO 8000 "Hawk Point" Desktop APUs for the business segment, bringing CPU, GPU, & AI leadership to commercial PCs with a strong set of "PRO" technologies.

AMD Sees Growth In Its Commercial Business & Expands The Desktop PC Portfolio Further With Next-Gen Ryzen PRO 8000 APUs

With the rise of AI, the business segment has seen new workloads that require a new generation of chips. These workloads and AI-powered experiences include running Generative AI locally on PCs, enabling a wide spectrum of personalization, productivity, and privacy features.

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Today marks the expansion of the Zen 4 "PRO" family for the commercial desktop and mobile segment in the form of Ryzen PRO 8000 (Desktop) and Ryzen PRO 8040 (Laptop) APUs. The latest family includes Zen 4 CPU cores, RDNA 3 GPU cores, and XDNA NPUs, all packed within a singular package. Features of the family include:

• AMD Ryzen AI - Extending Leadership With First AI-Powered Desktops
• Zen 4 - World's Fastest & Most Advanced x86 Processor
• 4nm - Revolutionary Power Efficiency Upgrades
• AMD Pro Technologies - Cutting Edge Security, Simplified Manageability
• Wi-Fi 7 / BT 5.4 - Enabling Seamless Connectivity

The AMD Ryzen PRO 8000 Desktop APUs consist of 8 APUs. These APUs are essentially the same as the existing Ryzen 8000G & Ryzen 8000GE chips. The Ryzen 7 SKUs feature 8 cores & 16 threads, the Ryzen 5 SKUs feature 6 cores & 12 threads while the Ryzen 5 SKUs feature 4 cores & 8 threads. The Ryzen PRO 8000G SKUs operate at TDPs between 45-65W (45W cTDP) while the 8000GE SKUs operate at 35W cTDPs. The chips also pack AMD's RDNA 3 iGPUs with up to 12 compute units, the Radeon 780M/760M/740M.

But like the original Ryzen 8000G/8000GE SKUs, certain AMD Ryzen PRO 8000 APUs don't feature AI NPUs (8500G/GE & 8300G/GE). These APUs will still be able to run AI workloads on their CPU & GPU but that's about it. The APUs offer up to 16 TOPs from the NPU alone and a total of 39 system TOPs (NPU/GPU/CPU combined).

As for performance comparisons, the AMD Ryzen PRO 8700G was compared against the Intel Core i7-14700, both chips were running at 65W. In terms of graphics, the Ryzen PRO 8000 "Hawk Point" APUs offer up to 3x the graphics performance and up to 47% better overall performance. Intel did announce its Meteor Lake-PS CPUs recently for the embedded LGA 1851 platforms which adopt a faster CPU, GPU, and NPU but Ryzen PRO 8000 Desktop APUs should still be better based on what we have seen on the mobile front (Ryzen 8040 vs Core Ultra 100).

AMD also slams Intel's vPRO technologies with its own AMD PRO capabilities and says that